Month

Laguna Beach’s City Council voted 4-1 Tuesday to request that the California Department of Fish and Game give Laguna the highest possible level of marine protection, barring fishing of any kind in Laguna’s coastal waters by declaring the city’s entire seven-mile coastline a State...

By Dinah Shields, Special to the Independent It isn’t exactly your ordinary end of school party. For one thing, many of the students have their children with them. Also, Laguna Beach council member Jane Egly is here, as is David Peck, chair of the Cross-cultural Council. Where...

Southern California’s kelp forests, essential to the health of the marine ecosystem in California, have taken a beating in recent decades. Natural cycles of growth and decline have been skewed toward decline by El Nino events, algal blooms, polluted water, and populations of...